Every yearbook program has this kid. Enthusiastic, no formal training, handed a camera because someone has to shoot the games. I went looking for something to hand them — a slideshow, a cheat sheet, anything that would get them past the blurry-mess phase faster than trial and error would.
What I found was either too generic (aimed at hobbyists, nothing about deadlines or spreads) or too technical (aimed at working photojournalists, way past a fifteen-year-old with a school camera). Nothing built for exactly this kid, in exactly this situation.
So I wrote it myself.
See it on Teachers Pay Teachers — $3.19
Seventeen slides covering what makes an action shot work, shutter speed as the setting that actually matters, finding the peak moment by sport, surviving gym lighting, sideline positioning, and the non-action shots that make a spread richer. Closes with a game-day workflow checklist so they’re not improvising Friday night.
Three dollars is not the expensive option here. My time is the expensive option. This is the difference between building a training module from scratch and just handing someone something that already works.
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